Mar 25, 2007

（Edited by freelance Chinese translator li – English to Chinese or Chinese to English translation services）

Sharing Memory Files

Memories can be shared by having a central memory file that is managed by one of the vendors or the client.

When vendor 1 receives a translation job it would download the whole memory. It would do any necessary pre-processing, then analyse the job against the downloaded memory. Likewise when vendor 2 receives a translation job it would do the same.

On completion of the translation jobs the new or changed memory units need to be cleaned into the main memory. This job should be the responsibility of one of the vendors as the main custodian of the memory, or, if the specialist resource is available, the client.

Server-Based Memories

Memories can be made available through products such as Trados TM Server.

Following receipt of jobs from a client, the vendors will pre-process and analyse against the memory in the normal way, but will use the on-line memory for analysis.

Translation-ready files are passed to the translators with log-in information to access the on line memory. The translators then translate in the normal way, but instead of using a local copy or subset of the memory, they link to the full on line memory.

The memory server as above is based on a relational database and must be a high-availability system.